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How the Smith Family Became Catholic

The moving story of how Byron Smith, Co-Founder and Chairman of Creed & Culture, and his family came to enter the Catholic Church.

Raised a devout evangelical Protestant, Andrew Smith converted to Catholicism before beginning his freshman year at Notre Dame. After his conversion, Smith wrote hundreds of letters to his parents and two younger siblings explaining the theological reasoning of his faith. 

Four years later, his parents, Beth and Byron, and siblings, Abby and Andrew, entered the Catholic Church on Aug. 15, the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary, at the St. Cecilia Motherhouse for the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia in Nashville, Tennessee. 

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